{Day 3} Noticing Thankfulness
What is a memory for which you are grateful? Take a moment to put yourself back into the memory, see the colors, hear the sounds, feel the emotions attached to ...
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Living Good News
Mondays are for counting thanks to 1000 and beyond… One of my church’s missionaries, Carl, told a story about the healing impact of the Gospel that ...
Creating Space for Beauty
I’ve found that experiencing beauty as a regular part of my day requires cultivating a welcoming space: physical space, such as having a special area to d...
Answered Prayers
Mondays are for counting thanks to 1000 and beyond… While I love Seattle, I need to get out of the city every so often to a place with more grass than con...
Cup Overflowing
Continuing to count all that I am grateful for… 385. Leading the retreat, Cup Overflowing: Joy as a Lenten Practice, for an amazing and wonderful group of...
Ordinary Time
On Thursday, for Epiphany, I chalked my door with the ancient formula 20+C+M+B+11, which remembers the three travelers, Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar, who left...
Patience
A quiet day of sunshine, writing and prayer…deep in Advent waiting, working on my dissertation and cooking a batch of soup. “Instead of asking why t...
Sword Fighting
Sometimes I’m sure I rattle when I walk or think or talk or simply stand, paralyzed. Chains, binding and heavy, clank about me. Doubt. Worry. Fear. Sadne...
Practicing Resurrection
My immersion in Eugene Peterson’s books continued this past week with Practicing Resurrection. Alongside Answering God, it is one of his finest, and a gre...